GRE Word List
ENIGMA
something hard to understand or explain
The meaning of the word enigma is something hard to understand or explain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| ramp | a sloping way or plane: such as |
| derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| serpentine | of or resembling a serpent (as in form or movement) |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| zealot | a zealous person |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |